Whether drawing, calling, electing...I think we get too hung up on these words, and the various nuances that people attach to them, as if we need to get a perfect handle on them to understand God. The word that I believe encapsulates God's overall attitude to man, whether sinner or saint, is "with". God wants to be with us. When Adam and Eve sinned, God didn't walk away, He walked toward them. He knew what they had done, yet nothing changed, I repeat nothing changed in God's attitude toward Adam and Eve. What changed was their attitude toward Him. That is what sin does. It causes a separation. But that separation is not because God turns His back or stays aloof from sinners or takes a vacation until He feels as if time and chastisement has run their course, no. It is sinners who run away and hide from God. It is our minds that are changed by sin...we begin to doubt God's love...we doubt His grace and mercy...we fear His punishing wrath...and its all wrong.
God does not change His attitude toward sinners one iota. His love is utterly and completely unconditional. He wants our company every day, every hour of every day, if we would let Him.
And that is where humility comes in. Yes, we have sinned. Yes, we are guilty. But we have a choice. Either we allow our pride to dominate our thinking and think that we must 'improve' ourselves, or do some good deeds, or wait until our consciences no longer condemn us because time dulls the acuteness of guilt....or....we can humble ourselves before God, confess our sin, and as scripture says. He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And that my friends is 70X 7 times forgiveness if necessary.
What was God's request to Moses? "Make me a tabernacle that I might be with them". God sent His only Son to die that whosoever believes in Him, may have eternal life. The offer of life is open. I find repugnant the extreme Calvinist proposition that some are predetermined to suffer in hell (so it is thought) for all eternity as if in some way this brings glory to God.
God does not need us, He wants us. 1Co 3:9 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.
2Co 5:18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
2Co 5:19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
God by His omnipresent Spirit is working in the world to bring people to Himself, but it is through us that He has chosen to do this. Through the preaching of the gospel, ("If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto Me")....through personal witness and our testimony we draw people to their Savior....I am convinced that it is only by obstinate and determined refusal to be drawn and impressed by the promptings of the Spirit that anyone is finally lost. Sadly, this will be a vast multitude entering in by the wide gate...but not one will be so doing without having been invited...they all will be without excuse. In the final analysis, it is not sin that condemns sinners to their destiny, it is the refusal of the offer of salvation, their unbelief in God's love.
And sadly, much of the blame can be placed upon the church for people's misapprehension regards the character of God. That would be where I depart from a number of foundational doctrines that are common among the majority of Christian churches, eternal torment being the chief.